"Free Trade Reimagined" begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined. Unger's intervention in this major contemporary debate serves as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas with which we explain economic activity. He ...
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"Free Trade Reimagined" begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend protectionism against free trade. Instead, he attacks and revises the terms on which the traditional debate between free traders and protectionists has been joined. Unger's intervention in this major contemporary debate serves as a point of departure for a proposal to rethink the basic ideas with which we explain economic activity. He suggests, by example as well as by theory, a way of understanding contemporary economies that is both more realistic and more revealing of hidden possibilities for transformation than are the established forms of economics. One message of the book is that we need not choose between accepting and rejecting globalization; we can have a different globalization. Traditional free-trade doctrine rests on shaky empirical and theoretical ground. Unger takes a new approach to show when international trade is likely to be useful or harmful to the socially inclusive economic growth that every nation wants. Another message is that the movement of people and ideas is more important than the movement of things and money, and that freedom to change the institutions defining a market economy is just as important as freedom to exchange goods on the basis of those institutions. "Free Trade Reimagined" ranges broadly within and outside economics. Presenting technical issues in plain language, it appeals to the general reader. It puts a disciplined imagination in the service of rebellion against the dictatorship of no alternatives that characterizes life and thought today.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 229 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2007017229 Type of material Book Personal name Unger, Roberto Mangabeira. Main title Free trade reimagined: the world division of labor and the method of economics / Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Published/Created Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2007. Description vi, 229 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780691134291 (hardcover: alk. paper) 0691134294 (hardcover: alk. paper) LC classification HF1713. U42 2007 LC Subjects Free trade. Globalization--Economic aspects. Notes Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Dewey class no. 382/.71 Other class no. 83.42 National bib no. GBA759870 National bib agency no. 013805628 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn123539675 (OCoLC)123539675
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